Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: The Power Elite, Periphery Countries, Core Countries
23 Feb 2021
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C. wright mills (1916 1962) leading advocates of conflict theory. Society is not a harmonious system but made up of unequal social groups. Influenced by marx & weber he rejected the structural functionalist notion that society is a relatively harmonious system in a coherent whole conflicting interests and with different access to key resources. Noam chomsky: ideology of the ruling elite. Critical of the broad & abstract concepts of structural functionalism very critical of structural functionalists arguing that their concepts were too broad and abstract devoid of any political concerns and lacking a broader historical understanding of society. Critical of sociological research that emphasizes quantification, statistical analysis critical of the direction in which sociologists were taking empirical research. Sought to provide an alternative to abstract theorizing taking a positivist approach his work sought to provide an alternative to abstract theorizing by specifically analyzing political and social institutions in his country.
